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Statistics is the art of distilling meaning from data. Statistics is a whole that is made up of many parts, and each of those parts has its own meaning and its own story to tell.

Formatting specific statistical measures in papers using APA style.
Details for reporting stats within the text.

Reporting Statistics in APA Style.docx
Reporting statistics in APA.pdf


Course Topics and Textbook Chapters

Lisa's Notes:
Chapter 2, DeVeaux:
Data value needs context
Habit of data analysis
Defining Variables
Important points
 Chapter 3, Display/Describe Categorical Data
Goal
Display options
Important points
 Symbols to copy and paste in our journals (I hope this helps):
  1. xbar x
  2. Sum Σ
  3. Standard deviation of population σ
  4. Standard deviation of sample Sx
  5. variance of populationσ2
  6. variance of sample Sx2
  7. Is this mean? ϻ
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Suzanne Notes:

Question: How should we consider the level of measurement in Likert scales?

I have been struggling with this after reading Kinnear and the textbook, and found this article that provides some additional background.
Likert Scales Ordinal or Interval data.pdf



Vocabulary words